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Confessions of a document generator
Brett Weir, May 1, 2023
A tale of how easily a project can be derailed by attempting to automate things that maybe don't need to be automated.Building a static site with Eleventy and Tailwind
Brett WeirClaire Nguyen, April 17, 2023
Eleventy and Tailwind are two popular tools for front end development, but making them work together is non-obvious. We'll explore these tools for the first time and work on getting them to play nicely together.Crossing the uncanny valley
Brett Weir, April 3, 2023
Lately, I've been feeling a lot of anxiety about my role in the post-AI future. Without many answers, I decided to see what ChatGPT had to say.Installing things with style
Brett Weir, March 27, 2023
The `install` command is profoundly useful and profoundly underrated. Learn how this tiny unassuming command can save a ton of scripting and make your installations cleaner and more robust.How to remove Rook from a Kubernetes cluster
Brett Weir, March 20, 2023
If you're installing Rook for the first time, it'll probably take a few tries, but fully removing it from your cluster is more difficult than it looks. We'll walk through a simple procedure to restore your cluster to a Rook-free state.All the ways to write a string in YAML
Brett Weir, March 13, 2023
There are multiple ways to represent a string in YAML, but it's not easy to know why you'd choose one over another. Here's a primer on YAML string syntax and why and when to use each one.The apt sandwich
Brett Weir, March 2, 2023
Learn how to make your Debian-based containers dramatically smaller without having to switch to another base image.Schedule GitLab CI/CD pipelines with Terraform
Brett Weir, February 27, 2023
You run a pipeline on every commit, right? But what if you haven't committed in awhile? In this article, we'll automate a weekly pipeline schedule to exercise all projects, active or not.Transfer files with ssh
Brett Weir, February 20, 2023
Unix tools are designed to be useful in new ways that tool authors don't anticipate. In this article, we'll use ssh to re-create the functionality of scp.Write great command line utilities with Python
Brett Weir, February 13, 2023
Learn how to create simple, standalone, useful Python CLI tools to solve even the most mundane infrastructure problems, so that you can start automating everything.